Richard Pryor Quotes

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson

You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

Eventually, we all end up alone.

And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)